A Pink, Tender Little Girl Named Yueling

The little Daoist child looked as if she had been carved from pink jade, around six or seven years old, with delicate features. Dressed in a blue-green Daoist robe, she looked adorably cute.

She was a young female Daoist child. Her smile was bright, her fine teeth like pearly shells. Clearly, teasing the little wolf cub had brought her immense satisfaction and joy.

Sunlight fell across her profile, making her little face appear even more rosy and lustrous.

At the sight of this female Daoist child, Wu Chu jumped up at once, rushed out of the little wooden cabin, and looked around. His actions startled both the little milk wolf and the female Daoist child.

Yibao flew out and sat on Wu Chu's shoulder, kicking her little legs as she watched with a smile.

When he failed to spot anyone else nearby, Wu Chu gave the female Daoist child what he thought was his brightest smile and asked, "Little sister, where are you from? Where is your master?"

Although he had already guessed from the map that this world was the Primordial World, what if humans already existed here? Clinging to that last sliver of hope, Wu Chu smiled with complete sincerity.

The little girl raised her head and looked at Wu Chu and Yibao on his shoulder with her large, dark, adorable eyes. The breeze lifted the ends of her hair, and several playful strands fell onto her pink lips, making her look even cuter. Gesturing with her pale little hands, she rattled off a string of words Wu Chu could not understand. Still, he had heard this language in his dreams before.

Clearly, this was the language of this world.

For the moment, Wu Chu found it difficult to translate it into his native tongue. Feeling troubled, he looked at Yibao on his shoulder.

Yibao spread her hands and shrugged, indicating that she did not understand either.

Thus, the two began talking past each other, gesturing wildly as they spoke.

At last, a voice rang out in his mind. "Greetings, Senior..."

"Huh? How did your voice appear in my mind?"

"This is communication through Divine Sense, Senior... do you not know?"

The female Daoist child tilted her little head and looked at Wu Chu in confusion, curiosity in her eyes.

"Ahem!" Wu Chu neither denied nor admitted it. He merely said, "I'm not some Senior. My name is Wu Chu. Little sister, what is your name?"

Communication through Divine Sense—was it really this miraculous?

Could it so easily overcome the barriers between different languages?

Wu Chu silently pondered.

"Senior may call me Yueling."

"Yueling! What a beautiful name!" Wu Chu smiled, then asked, "Where is your master? How could he feel at ease letting you play alone in these wild mountains?"

"My master? Yueling does not have a master yet!"

The female Daoist child tilted her little head as she spoke, then looked intently at the Azure Dragon on the distant mountaintop. Pointing at it, she asked, "Did Senior hunt that Azure Dragon?"

Although Wu Chu wished he possessed such ability, he truly felt too embarrassed to boast about it before a little girl.

Besides, this little girl's appearance was far too strange.

She had no master and was not very old, yet she dared to wander alone through these dangerous wild mountains. She was obviously no ordinary figure.

He even suspected that this little girl might be some kind of demon spirit.

After all, even his own phone could become a spirit. How much more so could the beings of the Primordial World? He simply did not know what species this little demon spirit had transformed from.

Thinking of that, Wu Chu realized that he felt no fear or dread at all. Perhaps it was because this Yueling was simply too adorable and looked completely harmless.

While Wu Chu and Yueling conversed, the little wolf cub sat quietly to one side. Its gaze swept back and forth among Wu Chu, Yueling, and Yibao, while its little head swayed from side to side.

For some reason, it had actually run over here.

"Little Yueling, do you know where this place is?"

"This place is called Purple Jade Mountain. It is Purple Jade Daoist's Daoist Temple. Senior, do you not know?"

Facing Yueling's puzzled expression and those adorable eyes, Wu Chu sighed softly. "Yueling, just call me A Chu. I do not know much about this place, nor do I understand why I appeared here. Can you tell me about this place and everything beyond it?"

But upon hearing the words "Purple Jade Mountain," Wu Chu could not help lamenting inwardly: I'm done for. This really is the Primordial World!

He had originally entertained the faint hope that the little demon spirit Yibao might have made a mistake, but reality had now smashed that hope to pieces.

Yueling nodded slightly. "It seems Senior A Chu must have entered this place by accident after the Mountain Protection Array of Purple Jade Mountain was broken. This is Purple Jade Mountain, and that great tree is the Innate Spirit Root, the Purple Jade Spirit Crabapple. Purple Jade Mountain was originally Purple Jade Daoist's Daoist Temple. A month ago, that Azure Dragon led his Shrimp Soldiers and crab generals into Purple Jade Mountain..."

As he listened to Yueling's account, Wu Chu gradually gained a general understanding of what had happened.

"This morning, the Dragon Ancestor offered a sacrifice to the Heavenly Dao and led the Dragon Clan in establishing the Dragon Court in the Eastern Sea, ruling over the aquatic races of the Four Seas, as well as every scaled creature that lived in the waters between heaven and earth. Purple Jade Mountain had only just begun to return to peace, so I dared to come back. I never expected that Azure Dragon to have already been slain here."

Wu Chu nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.

But at that moment, his heart was even less calm.

Dragon Ancestor, Dragon Clan, Dragon Court...

This should be the era when the Three Primordial Clans stood in opposition!

The Three Clans War and the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity had yet to begin.

He looked toward Yibao, and Yibao nodded slightly in return, as if she knew exactly what he wanted to ask.

Seeing this, Wu Chu could not help sighing inwardly. I arrived way too early!

But he quickly looked at Yibao in confusion. "Could you hear my Divine Sense conversation with Yueling?"

Yibao smiled. "Yueling is also communicating with Yibao through Divine Sense! And Yibao has already learned how to communicate through Divine Sense as well, so long as Master is willing to open his mind to Yibao."

"Doesn't that mean I have no secrets in front of you?"

"Does Master have any secrets from Yibao?" Yibao gave him a seductive smile. "Which films Master secretly watched, which stories he read, which teachers' skills he liked watching, which girls he had flirted with, what explicit things he said, what lewd things he did... Yibao knows them all perfectly well. Isn't Yibao's appearance exactly what Master likes best?"

"..."

You little demon spirit!

Wu Chu gritted his teeth inwardly, but all that remained in his heart was a bitter smile.

Thinking about it, who could hide their secrets from their own phone?

As Wu Chu smiled bitterly, Yueling asked, "Senior, have you seen Purple Jade Daoist?"

Wu Chu came back to himself and shook his head slightly. "If my guess is correct, Purple Jade Daoist has also perished."

This was the scene that had appeared in his dream. The young Daoist had been no match for the Azure Dragon and ultimately chose to burn himself away in a final sacrificial strike, ending with both of them perishing together.

Upon hearing this, Yueling sighed faintly before saying, "I wish to avenge Purple Jade Daoist by eating this Azure Dragon. Can Senior A Chu help me?"

"..."

This counted as avenging someone?

Though he found it rather strange, Wu Chu still asked, "How should I help you?"

Yueling's eyes lit up slightly. "Though the dragon is dead, its remaining might endures. I cannot approach its body. Senior A Chu is stronger than I am, so surely you can approach it..."

Wu Chu: "..."

Since this girl was a being of the Primordial World, she had to be countless times stronger than him. But why could he ignore the Azure Dragon's lingering might while she claimed she could not get close?

Could her true form be a fish? Or perhaps a snake? Was she instinctively suppressed by it?

Feeling that something was off, Wu Chu shook his head. "It isn't that I don't want to help you. It's that I don't have any tools. I can't cut open that dragon's body. Do you have a knife or sword?"

Yueling stared at Wu Chu with her adorable big eyes, as if saying: Are you joking?

"Ah, we'll think of something later!" Wu Chu said as he walked toward the lakeside.

Then a short sword, entirely white, appeared directly in Yueling's hand...

Little girl, put the sword down first. We can talk this out...

Wu Chu was startled and took two steps back. Yueling then said, "Senior, do not panic. This sword of mine is called Ling Su. It is my Spirit Treasure. Can it be used?"

"It should... probably work!"

Wu Chu gave an awkward smile and reached out to take the Spirit Prime Sword. With a loud clang, the Spirit Prime Sword fell from his hand, dragging his entire body down with it as he crashed straight onto the ground.

The little girl was stunned at first, then the two silkworm-like brows above her eyes began wriggling again.

"If Senior does not wish to help me, you could have said so directly. Why must you humiliate me like this?" The little girl pouted, looking as if she were about to burst into tears. She was remarkably straightforward.

This left Wu Chu somewhat embarrassed, while Yibao covered her mouth and giggled.

Wu Chu smiled helplessly. "It isn't that I don't want to help you. I really am just an ordinary person! I'm not some Senior, and I don't even know how to cultivate..."

"Senior, do not treat me as a child too young to understand. In this world, are there any beings in Transformation Form who do not know cultivation? If you do not know cultivation, how could you possibly take Transformation Form?"

Yueling gave a soft snort and innocently exposed Wu Chu's "lie." "Besides, Senior has the spirit of a Merit Spiritual Treasure by your side. If you do not know cultivation, where did that Merit come from?"

Merit?!

The spirit of a Spirit Treasure?!

She meant Yibao, right?

Wu Chu looked at Yibao in bewilderment, secretly wondering whether he had done anything beneficial to the rules of the Heavenly Dao... Hm? Could it be because he was an Acquired Being?

Huh?

Had the Heavenly Dao also "looked through" his phone?

Once he considered that possibility, Wu Chu gradually began to understand. Perhaps the golden rune chains that had appeared on his phone were there because his phone had become a Merit Spiritual Treasure.

If the appearance of an Acquired Being like him was beneficial to the rules of the Heavenly Dao, then his phone should have been even more beneficial to those rules than he was!

The more Wu Chu thought about it, the brighter his eyes became.